is there a fee for the CC. if so, you may want to ditch it and switch to some other rewards card. you won't be using the miles much it seems and tow get 300K additional miles to get 1st class tickets, it'd take 100 months or 5 years to qualify for a ticket. at that point, I don't know how easy it would be to get the seats you're looking for. there's no need to spend $$ for that.